About Charity
Dr. Charity Rolfes is a Virginia LCP with 25 years of practice who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and issues related to self-esteem or body image.
Dr. Rolfes works with a wide range of life changes and challenges, including phobias as one of the concerns she lists. She emphasizes a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk through painful experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building trust and on clear, practical steps to reduce distress. Conversation is direct and caring, with attention to each person's values and goals. Her approach blends several methods to meet different needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s perspective and choices in therapy.
Dr. Rolfes also draws on mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the work. Mindfulness skills are used to help people notice thoughts and feelings without becoming overwhelmed.
Psychodynamic ideas help make sense of long-standing patterns that affect current relationships and choices. People describe practical steps in sessions that connect to daily life. Dr.
Rolfes invites clients to set clear goals and to test small changes between meetings. She works in English and practices in Virginia as a licensed clinical psychologist (LCP).
How therapy approaches shape online care
Dr. Rolfes commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and trying practical experiments to change them, which fits well when someone wants tools for anxiety, phobias, or mood concerns. DBT teaches skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which is useful for relationship stress, anger, and intense mood swings. Finding the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Clients are invited to share feedback and to set concrete, measurable steps so progress can be tracked between sessions. Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or mobility limits. Video calls let the therapist and client see facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions are useful when internet speed is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief coaching, check-ins, and skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and to fit therapy into a busy life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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